Quotes About God

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

Men reverence one another, not yet God.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

When there's only God to blame, we forgive him. When it's our fellow man, we destroy him.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

Gazzy, man, jeezum!" Fang exclaimed. "What the heck have you been eating for God's sake?" That was a smoke bomb!" Gazzy defended himself. "Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house!

The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.